I am a 22-year-old male who has an enlarged lymph node in the left side of my neck. No blood samples had been taken as it was deemed an unnecessary measure (unless they grew or spread). One very large node has been around since I was 5yrs old, so my parents have informed me… I am a heavy smoker and have been for the past 7 yrs, roughly 2-3 packs a day. Unfortunately, it has started spreading to other nodes and now I have 4 of them on the left side of my neck. I am exhausted, and I seem to have a fever with heavy sweating while I sleep. All information alludes to some form of cancer and I absolutely refuse any type of radioactive/chemical treatments, as I would rather die. Can anyone give me any advice? Nor will I go to the doctor that would just run up medical bills for my family and I’d probably die after it was all said and done anyway. To hell with that… Any Organic Herbal remedies? Or am I just SOL.
2007-08-19
08:35:41
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Sounds to me like it's time to find God if you haven't already. We are all gonna die, some sooner, some later. Good luck to you. Many things about the bills and treatment I agree with you believe it or not. Cancer is devasting and we are no closer to finding a cure than we ever were. I would be concerned about pain management. You can do something about that. Reduce the pain.
2007-08-19 08:50:03
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answered by Irish 7
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I have hardened lymph nodes as well....best thing I would suggest is to go to the doctor, they may have one biopsied as I had done a couple of years ago...nothing major at all...day surgery and was in and out in matter of 4 hours...which I was knocked out for most of those hours anyway so it felt like an hour max to me....anyhow....they only biopsy one of the nodes on that side because they say if one is not cancerous then chances are none are cancerous....it sounds like you have a virus and sinse your nodes are hardened you cannot fight off the infection....as well, they may test you for lupus...the fever and nights sweats are indicators for Lupus and other diseases as well...autoimmune diseases....or non hodgkins lymphoma...the none cancerous kind....go get checked and make sure you ask all the questions you have and make sure you write them down cause I tend to go blank when I'm in my knickers....at anyrate they may turn you into a guinnie pig for a minute until they figure out what is wrong....they still are clueless with me and periodically I get the night sweats and low grade fever and a few other symptoms and the best thing is to go when you are feeling that way so they have a better chance of detecting what virus your body is trying to fight off. Do yourself a favor and don't look up stuff on the computer because your symptoms are general and can be many different things...too much information is bad for your mental health...let the professionals have a wack at it and give you a diagnosis before you start driving yourself crazy.
Take Care.....DRINK LOTS OF WATER...it does help with fatigue and energy....and your doctor may be able to prescribe something for the fatigue, but for me it doesn't help if I am tired I am exhausted...eat healthy and quit smoking...try the chantix pills...ask your doctor about them when you go in for your check up.
Good Luck.
2007-08-19 09:39:11
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answered by Greenie 4
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Cancers that are self diagnosed are often the easiest kind to cure. You might have mono or many other illnesses and not cancer at all. However since you refuse to go to the Dr you might linger for a while before you find out what is really wrong with you. Quitting the heavy smoking might cure your self diagnosed cancer. You sound very depressed and are definitely not thinking clearly about what is important and what is not.
You are 22. If you do not pay your medical bills - so what? Unless you have a huge trust fund the hospital can not get blood out of a turnip. Get treatment, ask the hospital to write off your bill or declare bankruptcy and then go on with life - simple solution.
You have mentioned a lot of things you won't do. I was talking to an older Dr about the issue of his patients who refused to do what would seem very normal to most people dealing with an illness. As to why they refused to do logical exams and following through on treatments, he said to me "maybe they are not sick enough". Think about this.
You need to go to the Dr and find out what is really wrong with you. You probably do not have cancer. If you do have cancer then you can choose to curl up in the corner and die or seek normal treatments and then after you are in remission go on with your life - like millions of other people do. Dying of untreated cancer is not a pleasant way to go out - for you or your surviving family. Unless you hide out your family will have many long months of caregiving while wondering why you did not go to the Dr when doing so would have actually helped.
If you expect any herbal organic remedies to cure your cancer and it turns out that your cancer is real, no you won't find any magic bullet cancer cure and if you refuse to do the same treatments that work for millions of other people then yes you are SOL.
You should also know that cancer often has a "window of opportunity" where a recently diagnosed cancer can often be put into remission or cured relatively easily. That same cancer if allowed to grow while the patient refuses early treatment will soon become incurable. It might be treatable but by wasting your precious time it will no longer be curable.
Wake up and smell the coffee.
2007-08-19 09:21:31
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answered by Anonymous
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Sounds like you really don't care about yourself considering you smoke and have let this gone on for so long. There is not much anyone can do for you if you aren't willing to do it for yourself. You are too young to die and they can catch it if it hasn't spread too far. You may have waited too long, but you would never know unless you go to the doctor. It is your choice though. People can try to convince you all they want and if you truly want to die of cnacer then you will. I can tell you know that dying with this cancer without any medical help will be hell. You will be in so much pain you will want to kill youself. Atleast doctors could help you now so you can continue to live a fullfilling life. Your choice. I wish you the best. The only person you can turn to would be God.
2007-08-19 09:06:16
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answered by hsmommy06 7
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Well it could be cancer...or it could be something else...but there's really no way to know for sure without going to the doctor.
There's a good chance you've got something else.
I got rid of my own Stage 4 cancer using habeneros peppers, garlic and emulsified cod liver oil. It took all of two weeks to get rid of it permanently...that's how strong that combination is.
I got rid of it twice actually, because after the dozen or more lesions went away in less than a week, I stopped. A few lesions came back, so I did it again.
If you wanted to, you could try it. If it worked, you still wouldn't know what you had, but on the plus side, you'd feel better.
Good luck and be well.
Kelley
2007-08-19 11:52:45
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answered by Anonymous
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sugicaly remove the lympe nodes to get rid of the cancer cells
the fever coudl be becouse of a virus and your body cant fight it because your lympe nodes are screwed up then again check it may not be cancer just get an MRI and if you dont want treatment to cost your family you hsould be able to pay for an mri before yoou die
sorry
and eat fish it will slow cancer down but wont stop it
2007-08-19 08:54:37
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answered by Anonymous
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This is a good place to research alternatives
2007-08-19 10:52:26
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answered by Know it all 5
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your SOL, but why put your family throug that, go and get help. most forms of lymphoma are curable.
2007-08-19 08:48:29
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answered by just me 5
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